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Premonitory symptoms
Symptoms that signal the beginning of a disease.
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Prehyoid
Located anterior to the hyoid bone in the neck.
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Prehemiplegic
Growth and maturation of a fertilized egg within the oviduct.
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Preemptive
Anything that comes before the distinctive rash of a disease.
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Preconacious
A psychoanalytic term used to describe mental processes that a person is not consciously aware of but can recall, in contrast to unconscious processes that cannot be recalled. This state is also known as the “foreconscious.”
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Precentral
In front of the central fissure in the brain.
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Prebrachial
Located on the anterior side of the upper arm.
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Pott’s puffy tumor
Swelling caused by inflammation of a skull bone. A soft, pliable lump on the scalp resulting from an accumulation of pus, which is caused by an infection of the bone marrow in the skull, known as osteomyelitis.
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Pott’s paralysis
Paralysis of both legs resulting from tuberculosis affecting the spine.
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Pott’s gangrene
Gangrene that develops in older individuals, also known as senile gangrene.
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